Word: celle
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...T900, but you can send and receive e-mail. You can also get daily news, sports, weather and entertainment updates. Even better, it costs half as much as the V phone, and monthly fees from PageNet start at $10--a fraction of what you'd pay for a cell phone...
...send a message to a friend in Prague. I sent love notes to my boyfriend while lounging in Central Park. And the one-sentence news updates made me feel totally plugged in. But the clincher was this: instead of looking like just another annoying yuppie yapping on my cell phone for all the world to hear, I could discreetly type messages in silence. People around me could see I was typing something, but who knew if it was a memo to the President or a reminder to buy toilet paper at the corner drugstore...
...series languished at the bottom of my briefcase. When I tried to use the minibrowser, the postage stamp-size screen made "browsing" a fantasy. Instead I was stuck with a series of multiple-choice menus that felt like the sats all over again. Besides, typing on a cell phone is bizarre. To produce a D, for example, you hit the 3 key once. To type an F, you hit the same key three times...
...gave the cell phone a second chance. I discovered I could access my AOL e-mail. I found movie times for Chicken Run at my local theater. I sent a recipe for Blueberry Monkey Bread (whatever that is) to a perplexed friend down the hall. And one day, when my flight was delayed and I needed to find a quick alternative route, I discovered that a phone is actually a lot more useful than an e-mail device. So even though the T900 is better for typing secret messages, the V phone is ultimately more versatile. Now I just have...
...idealism though, he's not naive. He knows the value of modern public relations. He decorates his barges with the logos of sponsors, from Cargill to O'Douls, and maintains a cutting-edge website, www.cleanrivers.com From his sleeping bag on the houseboat, he uses a pair of cell phones to drum up funds and give interviews to journalists. He's made some influential friends as well, including Robert Kennedy Jr., whose own conservation group, Riverkeeper, Pregracke admires and draws inspiration from...